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Calls closed in 2009 - closing date descending

Calls that closed in 2009 listed in descending order by closing date.

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  • TSB/EPSRC energy efficiency in buildings - sandpit
    Call for participants: The TSB and EPSRC invite applications to a sandpit focussed on achieving energy efficiency.
    Issued: 26 October 2009 Closing Date: 17 December 2009

  • Collaboration Fund
    Expression of interest: The Collaboration Fund offers support to researchers wishing to work with a commercialising partner.
    Issued: 13 October 2009 Closing Date: 11 December 2009

  • Toshiba Fellowship Programme call
    Invitation for proposals: The programme offers UK-based European PhD-level researchers the chance to gain experience with Toshiba in Japan.
    Issued: 15 September 2009 Closing Date: 11 December 2009

  • Senior Media Fellowships - extensions call 2010
    Expression of interest: Invitation for current Senior Media Fellows to apply for an additional two years.
    Issued: 08 October 2009 Closing Date: 10 December 2009

  • Senior Media Fellowships 2010
    Invitation for proposals: Applications invited from leading academic researchers who wish to spend time working proactively with the mass media.
    Issued: 08 October 2009 Closing Date: 10 December 2009

  • Membership of EPSRC’s Resource Audit Committee
    Call for nominations: A chance to influence and nominate people for the Committee.
    Issued: 03 November 2009 Closing Date: 04 December 2009

  • Laser Loan Pool
    Invitation for proposals: The Central Laser Facility invite applications for use of Lasers for Science Facility and the EPSRC Laser Loan Pool.
    Issued: 17 November 2009 Closing Date: 03 December 2009

  • Membership of EPSRC’s advisory panels 2009
    Call for nominations: A chance to nominate members of EPSRC's Technical Opportunities Panel, the User Panel and Societal Issues Panel.
    Issued: 19 October 2009 Closing Date: 19 November 2009

  • Digital Economy Research in the Wild
    Invitation for proposals: The Digital Economy Programme invites applicants to apply for short-term funding to perform ‘Research in the Wild’.
    Issued: 02 April 2009 Closing Date: 13 November 2009

  • NSF/EPSRC Materials 2009
    Invitation for proposals: An opportunity to participate in the Materials World Network activity, which fosters collaborations with US researchers.
    Issued: 11 August 2009 Closing Date: 11 November 2009

  • Partnerships for Public Engagement - 14th call
    Invitation for proposals: The Partnerships for Public Engagement scheme allows researchers to undertake research-related public engagement.
    Issued: 02 September 2009 Closing Date: 11 November 2009

  • BBSRC IBTI Club call
    Expression of interest: This call aims to address the broad challenges in biorefining by supporting research in the relevant disciplines.
    Issued: 01 September 2009 Closing Date: 05 November 2009

  • Sustainable Urban Environment: integration across scales
    Invitation for proposals: EPSRC welcomes new research proposals related to delivering sustainability within the urban environment.
    Issued: 04 September 2009 Closing Date: 03 November 2009

  • Novel technologies for stem cell science
    Invitation for proposals: Funding to support cross-disciplinary collaborations to develop novel technologies for use in stem cell science.
    Issued: 13 August 2009 Closing Date: 03 November 2009

  • NSF/EPSRC Chemistry 2009
    Invitation for proposals: This is an opportunity for UK and US investigators to form transatlantic partnerships and submit bilateral projects.
    Issued: 08 September 2009 Closing Date: 03 November 2009

  • Innovative Electronics Manufacturing Research Centre
    Invitation for proposals: The IeMRC is seeking proposals from eligible UK academics for a number of compatible research projects.
    Issued: 30 September 2009 Closing Date: 30 October 2009

  • Royal Academy of Engineering / EPSRC Research Fellowships
    Invitation for proposals: The RAE and EPSRC are offering jointly up to ten Research Fellowships to outstanding researchers in engineering.
    Issued: 05 August 2009 Closing Date: 28 October 2009

  • Nuclear Fission
    Invitation for proposals: Bids are invited from consortia against identified research areas related to Nuclear Fission power generation.
    Issued: 01 September 2009 Closing Date: 27 October 2009

  • Partnerships for Public Engagement starter grants - 1st call
    Invitation for proposals: The PPE scheme provides opportunities for active researchers to undertake related public engagement projects.
    Issued: 24 August 2009 Closing Date: 27 October 2009

  • Photonic systems workshop
    Call for participants: EPSRC are facilitating a workshop to bring together the research communities of photonics and related disciplines.
    Issued: 08 October 2009 Closing Date: 26 October 2009

  • Healthcare Partnerships
    Expression of interest: Expressions of interest are invited for collaborative research proposals which address an important healthcare issue.
    Issued: 31 July 2009 Closing Date: 20 October 2009

  • Joint EPSRC and POST postgraduate initiative 2010
    Invitation for proposals: A 3 month secondment to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) open to EPSRC-funded PhD students.
    Issued: 11 September 2009 Closing Date: 16 October 2009

  • Research Complex at Harwell
    Expression of interest: EPSRC would like to hear from the EPS community to highlight research that could be supported at Harwell.
    Issued: 14 September 2009 Closing Date: 16 October 2009

  • Healthcare Strategy Day: Degenerative Joint Disease
    Expression of interest: EPSRC is organising a Strategy Day focussing on Degenerative Joint Disease on 03 December 2009 in Birmingham.
    Issued: 10 September 2009 Closing Date: 15 October 2009

  • Leadership Fellowships 2010
    Invitation for proposals: EPSRC is offering Leadership Fellowships to provide up to five years' funding to talented researchers.
    Issued: 15 July 2009 Closing Date: 06 October 2009

  • Geoengineering - scoping workshop
    Expression of interest: EPSRC call for expressions of interest to attend a one day Geoengineering scoping workshop.
    Issued: 08 September 2009 Closing Date: 06 October 2009

  • Extreme computing
    Expression of interest: Call for expressions of interest to participate in a five day residential event in Oxfordshire, 11 - 15 January 2010.
    Issued: 04 August 2009 Closing Date: 30 September 2009

  • India-UK collaborative research initiative in solar energy
    Invitation for proposals: India’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) and RCUK Energy Programme invite solar energy research proposals.
    Issued: 23 June 2009 Closing Date: 30 September 2009

  • Carbon capture and storage 2009
    Invitation for proposals: The Research Councils' Energy Programme is seeking to fund two consortia in carbon capture and storage
    Issued: 22 July 2009 Closing Date: 29 September 2009

  • Career Acceleration Fellowships 2010
    Invitation for proposals: EPSRC's annual Career Acceleration Fellowships provide up to five years' funding to new and talented researchers.
    Issued: 15 July 2009 Closing Date: 29 September 2009

  • EPSRC-TSB low carbon vehicles
    Invitation for outlines: Outline proposals for small-scale, short term feasibility projects to help support the uptake of low carbon vehicles.
    Issued: 24 July 2009 Closing Date: 22 September 2009

  • UK Energy Research Centre
    Invitation for proposals: A call by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), supported by the Research Councils' Energy Programme.
    Issued: 22 July 2009 Closing Date: 17 September 2009

  • Contributions to next generation resilience sandpit
    Call for participants: EPSRC/ESRC are supporting a sandpit to develop approaches to enhancing infrastructure resilience to disruptive events.
    Issued: 21 July 2009 Closing Date: 17 September 2009

  • Transforming energy demand through digital innovation 2009
    Invitation for outlines: RCUK Energy and Digital Economy programmes call for outlines of projects in the area of energy demand reduction.
    Issued: 29 July 2009 Closing Date: 17 September 2009

  • Bridging the Gaps
    Invitation for outlines: EPSRC are seeking outline proposals for their Bridging the Gaps call.
    Issued: 08 July 2009 Closing Date: 16 September 2009

  • Software for science - town meeting
    Call for participants: EPSRC call for town meeting 27 October 2009 to discuss funding in software for computational science and engineering.
    Issued: 17 July 2009 Closing Date: 11 September 2009

  • Bright IDEAS awards: the big pitch – frontier materials manufacturing
    Invitation for proposals: EPSRC call for proposals in the research area of Materials Manufacturing to support exceptional research projects.
    Issued: 06 July 2009 Closing Date: 10 September 2009

  • Organic synthetic chemistry studentships 4th call
    Invitation for proposals: EPSRC and leading companies have formed a partnership to support research training in organic synthetic chemistry.
    Issued: 09 July 2009 Closing Date: 10 September 2009

  • Science and heritage post-doctoral fellowships call
    Invitation for proposals: An AHRC and EPSRC call to support leading-edge research into understanding the cultural and physical nature of heritage.
    Issued: 09 June 2009 Closing Date: 10 September 2009

  • People, energy and buildings
    Expression of interest: A joint call by EDF and the RCUK Energy Programme to develop research proposals on the energy efficiency of buildings.
    Issued: 01 July 2009 Closing Date: 02 September 2009

  • Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Policy Fellowships - Engineering
    Invitation for proposals: The RCUK Energy Programme and DECC are offering an Engineering placement opportunity for Policy Fellowships.
    Issued: 06 August 2009 Closing Date: 01 September 2009

  • Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) Policy Fellowships - Social Science
    Invitation for proposals: The RCUK Energy Programme and DECC are offering a Social Science placement opportunity for Policy Fellowships.
    Issued: 06 August 2009 Closing Date: 01 September 2009

  • Research council follow-on fund
    Invitation for proposals: Call for proposals for up to 12 months' funding to develop commercial potential of EPSRC research-generated ideas.
    Issued: 31 March 2009 Closing Date: 27 August 2009

  • Postdoctoral Fellowships call 2009
    Invitation for proposals: Postdoctoral Fellowships call in theoretical physics/computer and mathematical sciences & cross-disciplinary interfaces.
    Issued: 01 June 2009 Closing Date: 26 August 2009

  • Collaboration fund
    Expression of interest: Calls for expressions of interest for the collaboration fund, for commercialisation of outputs of EPSRC-funded research.
    Issued: 03 July 2009 Closing Date: 14 August 2009

  • Strategic Japanese-UK cooperative program on oxide electronics, organic electronics and spintronics 2009
    Invitation for proposals: A call for collaborative UK-Japan research proposals. These are small projects focussed on people exchange.
    Issued: 05 June 2009 Closing Date: 11 August 2009

  • Innovative Electronics Manufacturing Research Centre 2009
    Invitation for proposals: The IeMRC is seeking proposals from eligible UK academics to launch a number of ‘Flagship’ IeMRC research projects.
    Issued: 30 June 2009 Closing Date: 07 August 2009

  • Environmental nanoscience initiative - announcement of opportunity
    Invitation for proposals: A call for a major joint research effort in Environmental Nanoscience.
    Issued: 01 April 2009 Closing Date: 05 August 2009

  • Nanotechnology grand challenges: solutions for the environment
    Invitation for proposals: Call for proposals for large-scale interdisciplinary projects to provide environmental nanotechnology solutions.
    Issued: 01 June 2009 Closing Date: 05 August 2009

  • Interdisciplinary challenges for complexity science
    Invitation for proposals: ERA-NET, coordinated by EPSRC, invites Expressions of Interest for transnational interdisciplinary research projects.
    Issued: 07 May 2009 Closing Date: 30 July 2009

  • SUPERGEN town meetings
    Expression of interest: EPSRC is organising two town meetings to discuss how the SUPERGEN initiative will be taken forward from 2011.
    Issued: 03 July 2009 Closing Date: 24 July 2009

  • Complexity science for the real world
    Invitation for proposals: The EPSRC Cross-disciplinary Interfaces Programme invites proposals for internationally leading research programmes.
    Issued: 20 March 2009 Closing Date: 30 June 2009

  • Transforming energy demand through digital innovation
    Call for participants: This one-day meeting will help finalise a call for proposals concerned with the application of digital technologies.
    Issued: 08 June 2009 Closing Date: 30 June 2009

  • Maths of life sandpit: evolutionary processes - summary
    Expression of interest: Expressions of interest for an IDEAS Factory sandpit on evolutionary processes related to life and social sciences.
    Issued: 11 May 2009 Closing Date: 25 June 2009

  • Software sustainability
    Invitation for outlines: Call for outline applications to provide a research infrastructure to aid long-term sustainability of research software.
    Issued: 24 February 2009 Closing Date: 23 June 2009

  • Flashlight funding: engineering challenges in synthetic biology
    Call for participants: Pilot call for an early-stage career researchers' workshop leading to awards to explore emerging research challenges.
    Issued: 08 May 2009 Closing Date: 17 June 2009

  • Towards a sustainable urban environment
    Expression of interest: Call for workshop to identify Grand Challenges in Integration across Scales for a Sustainable Urban Environment.
    Issued: 14 May 2009 Closing Date: 12 June 2009

  • Low carbon shipping
    Invitation for proposals: The RCUK Energy Programme is now looking for proposals that take a whole systems approach to reducing CO2 emissions.
    Issued: 27 April 2009 Closing Date: 11 June 2009

  • Designing effective research spaces - sandpit call
    Expression of interest: Digital Economy Programme, AHRC and the British Library invite expressions of interest to take part in a sandpit event.
    Issued: 03 April 2009 Closing Date: 28 May 2009

  • Science and heritage
    Invitation for proposals: AHRC and EPSRC are issuing a call to support creative research activities through Interdisciplinary Research Grants.
    Issued: 17 March 2009 Closing Date: 14 May 2009

  • Future activities in nuclear power research and training
    Expression of interest: Call for expressions of interest to attend a scoping workshop on 15 June 2009
    Issued: 16 April 2009 Closing Date: 08 May 2009

  • Cold water cleaning
    Expression of interest: EPSRC and Procter & Gamble invite expressions of interest to participate in a five-day residential event.
    Issued: 27 March 2009 Closing Date: 07 May 2009

  • Industrial CASE studentship competition 2009
    Invitation for proposals: PhD studentships for businesses to take the lead in arranging projects with their choice of academic partner.
    Issued: 04 February 2009 Closing Date: 07 May 2009

  • EPSRC-NPL post-doctoral research partnerships
    Invitation for proposals: The second call for proposals under this Partnership is now open for applications in specific areas.
    Issued: 27 February 2009 Closing Date: 06 May 2009

  • Cross-disciplinary feasibility account 2009
    Invitation for proposals: A Cross-Disciplinary Feasibility Account, to be used to support a suite of short-term research activities.
    Issued: 24 March 2009 Closing Date: 01 May 2009

  • Information infrastructure protection: managing complexity risk and resilience
    Invitation for proposals: Collaborative research proposals are invited in information infrastructure protection.
    Issued: 20 February 2009 Closing Date: 23 April 2009

  • Maths of life workshop
    Call for participants: Applications are invited for a workshop exploring the interface between mathematical sciences and various disciplines.
    Issued: 26 February 2009 Closing Date: 16 April 2009

  • Centres for doctoral training in mathematical sciences
    Invitation for outlines: The EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Programme invites outlines for Centres for Doctoral Training in mathematical sciences.
    Issued: 03 March 2009 Closing Date: 15 April 2009

  • Synthesis of novel compounds for the potential treatment of respiratory diseases (drug discovery)
    Invitation for proposals: This call will address research challenges regarding synthesis of compounds for the treatment of respiratory diseases.
    Issued: 15 December 2008 Closing Date: 02 April 2009

  • Challenging engineering 2008-2009
    Invitation for outlines: For funding to support future engineering research leaders from an early stage of their careers.
    Issued: 04 November 2008 Closing Date: 04 March 2009

  • Research Council Follow-on Fund
    Invitation for proposals: Up to 12 months' funding to develop the commercial potential of ideas generated by EPSRC research grant funding.
    Issued: 19 September 2008 Closing Date: 26 February 2009

  • Detecting terrorist activities
    Call for participants: This call is for attendees for a five-day residential event on 11-15 May 2009.
    Issued: 17 December 2008 Closing Date: 12 February 2009

  • Lifelong health and wellbeing phase 2
    Invitation for proposals: RCUK together with the UK Health Departments invite applications for Phase 2 of Lifelong Health and Wellbeing (LLHW).
    Issued: 11 November 2008 Closing Date: 12 February 2009

  • Grand challenges - nanotechnology solutions for the environment town meeting
    Call for participants: This is a call for a town meeting for discussions on a major research call on nanotechnologies and the environment.
    Issued: 23 December 2008 Closing Date: 05 February 2009

  • EPSRC/NSFC joint UK-China Call in nanospintronics
    Invitation for proposals: EPSRC and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) call for joint proposals in nanospintronics.
    Issued: 16 September 2008 Closing Date: 27 January 2009

  • EPSRC/NSF - new directions in synthetic biology
    Call for participants: EPSRC and the National Science Foundation (NSF), invite applications to participate in a five-day sandpit in the US.
    Issued: 07 November 2008 Closing Date: 15 January 2009

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